Amjed Tantish is a swimming instructor. For years he ran children’s lessons at the port of Gaza, until war, poverty and financial difficulties forced him to stop. After five children drowned in the sea in front of his house, as a direct result of not knowing how to swim, he decided to launch a crowdfunding campaign to provide free swimming lessons for children caught up in the 2014 war. He rented excavators and built a “swimming pool” on the beach,using the foundations of houses destroyed in the bombings to erect a barrier against the waves. It is a “creative resistance” project in which nobody believed and which, despite it all, has really worked.